CARVER, Minn. — Soon homeowners and gardeners will be getting their hands dirty. Growing flowers, plants, and grass requires a dark and seemingly plentiful ingredient. We wanted to know: What is ...

A truck unloads a large pile of topsoil onto a lawn - FotoHelin/Shutterstock From pruning to starting seeds, there are plenty of tasks you can do to prepare for your best spring garden. But if you've ...

If you love edible gardening, you know you can't choose just any dirt to raise your crops. Learn what to avoid to make your ...

Q: I want to build a 20 by 50 foot berm in my backyard to plant a perennial flower garden. I also need to build up the soil level by a few inches to fill the ruts in my side yard that were created ...

Brandy Case Haub loves her new West Des Moines home, with one exception: the yard. She and her husband, Mike Haub, have struggled to grow anything in it since they moved in four years ago, and blame ...

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In gardening, everything has been created with a purpose, and most things have a place. This is especially true with the types of products gardeners should use on grass and plants, namely lawn ...

A few years ago, Isaac Larsen attended a wedding at a pioneer church in Minnesota. After the ceremony, he wandered around a cemetery by the church. He noticed the cemetery, which had never been tilled ...

Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for just how much has disappeared. The most fertile ...

At least 500 bighas of prime farmland loses productivity in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat every year, as their topsoil is sold to feed around 40 local brick kilns. Local farmers have alleged that they ...